Re: Unicode NFC - status, and RDF Concepts

Hello Jeremy,

Great to hear from you again after a long time!

On 2011/10/10 14:19, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
> 
> Several years ago, I was an editor of RDF Concepts and we included the
> following:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/
> [[
> The string in both plain and typed literals is recommended to be in
> Unicode Normal Form C [NFC]. This is motivated by [CHARMOD] particularly
> section 4 Early Uniform Normalization.
> ]]
> and
> [[
> All literals have a lexical form being a Unicode [UNICODE] string, which
> SHOULD be in Normal Form C [NFC].
> ]]
> 
> As we review this document, it has been noted that the CHARMOD reference
> is out-of-date, the reference to, section 4 of
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-charmod-20030822/#sec-Normalization
> has been replaced by the fairly different
> http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/#sec-EarlyUniformNormalization
> and that WD seems to have been abandoned, and no consensus reached.
> 
> What advice, if any, do I18N experts offer the RDF WG, updating the
> advice of 2002?

I'd recommend to keep the text the same, and just tweak or remove the reference. I unfortunately didn't have enough time to follow changes in charmod-norm in detail, but I hope to be able to catch up with more active members of the WG next week at the Internationalization and Unicode Conference in San Jose.

Regards,    Martin.